Breaking deps deliberately

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:22:23AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> You couldn't be a 'provenphysicist' for example without understanding the 
> laws of thermodynamics.

At least the laws of thermodynamics are written down ...

It seriously was not obvious to me that a broken dependency in some
out-of-the-way package, in an older version of Fedora, that I added to
*help Fedora users*, would be a problem.

Someone could easily do the same thing in future.  If broken
dependencies are so unacceptable, then it should be added to the
packaging guidelines.

Rich.

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